Adam Jauregui
Adam, was the first friend I ever made, this is the article of what not only happened to him, but what happened to me.
the full story, for those of you who've known me for awhile I've told you about Adam, R.I.P.
Articles old. Friend found it for me, and gave it to me.
By Dan Williams
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El Paso Times
A U.S. Army staff sergeant on emergency leave from his post in Korea shot and killed his wife and two children late Friday, before shooting himself in
the head, police said.
Sgt. Anthony Jauregui, 31, was taken to Beaumont Medical Center, where he was in critical condition late Saturday. Police found his wife, Jeanette,
34, lying dead on the kitchen floor of her house at the 4600 block of Junction in Northeast El Paso. The couple's two children, adam, 7, and
Gabriela, 5, also were found shot to death.
El Paso police Sgt. Pfeil said Anthony Jauregui apparently had returned home to deal with ongoing marital problems. Fort Bliss spokeswoman Jean Offutt
said Jauregui had been stationed in Korea with the 1-43 Air Defense Artillery for several months.
"Apparently things didn't improve and when he came back on emergency leave sometime (Friday), he...," Pfeil said. "I'll never understand why they
take the kids out, too."
Police said a woman and her four children were spending the night at the Jauregui house when Anthony Jauregui returned home armed with a handgun. The
woman, who was not identified, said Anthony Jauregui kicked her out of the house, but she was unable to bring her four children with her.
Joe Vera III, the jaureguis next door neighbor, said the woman came to his house screaming and crying. Vera Knew the woman as one of Jeanette
Jauregui's close friends. He said when she told him about a man in the house with a gun, he called 911.
"I was on the phone dialing 911 when I heard one shot, maybe the last shot." Vera said. "I went out and locked the front gate."
Police said the call came in at 11:39 p.m.
After failed attempts to contact anyone at the address, a police Special Weapons And Tactical team entered the house at 2:10 a.m. and found Jeanette
Jauregui and her two children dead. They also found Anthony Jauregui, who appeared to have shot himself in the head with .38 caliber revolver.
The other four children in the house, ages 4 to 11, were unharmed, Pfeil said.
"They didn't witness anything, apparently," he said. "They were in bedrooms in the back of the house.
"When the SWAT team brought them out, they made sure none of them saw any of it."
Vera said the SWAT team threw what appeared to be two stun grenades into the Jauregui house before they entered. Shortly afterward, they brought the
four children to Vera's house for safety until they could be reunited with their mother.
Vera and other neighbors said they were surprised and shocked over the shootings on their normally quiet Northeast street.
Vera said he and his wife had lived next to the Jaureguis for about a year and the two families had become good friends.
"We partied with them, we ate with them," he said, "We would baby-sit her kids, she would baby-sit ours," Vera said. "We were close
neighbors."
Saturday evening, he was standing on the sidewalk, chatting with neighbors and occasionally glancing at the yellow crime scene tape next door.
"I was up all night," he said, "I'm still wound up. Mostly because I'm still infuriated that the man had to kil his kids."
Vera said to his knowledge, neither Anthony nor Jeanette Jauregui had any relatives in the area. They had some marital problems, but until Friday,
Vera said heknew of no incidents that brought police to the house.
"They had the usual problems couples have, but there were never any cops around or anything like that," Vera said.
"Tony was a nice guy. I liked him a lot."
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If
they're okay, then it's you.
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